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Comment author: michaelkeenan 22 April 2014 08:29:30AM 1 point [-]

According to Moral Foundations Theory, fairness is one of the innate moral instincts.

According to Scott Adams, fairness was invented so children and idiots can participate in arguments.

I think we have a fairness instinct mostly so we can tell clever stories about why our desire for more stuff is more noble than greed.